Get Free, Prank It Forward or... just help a little...?

A self-indulgent thread if you will but not for myself. Please, the next time that someone from a "boots-on-the-ground" charity in your area asks for
a contribution for the foodbank, please help. Every little thing can help. A few old dinner-plates, some old but still perfectably wearable (no holes,
no stains and preferably clean!) clothes, a few packets of various dried or jarred/canned foods, rice, pasta sauce, beans, etc, etc.

Small things make a LOT of difference, as per the following clip about an initiative in the U.S.

OK, Shameless plug. I work (non-paid volunteer) at my local food bank (a small town slightly to the west of Rotterdam, Holland). I'm not blowing my
own trumpet here though, I'm blowing theirs, and others who are in need, so.... a little something from everyone, even if it's only once a year, helps
a lot. No drug addicts, alcoholics or degenerates are clients at my foodbank as far as I can tell (and I can usually tell!), just people in need.
Young, old, singles, couples, families, foreign, national.

Thank you for your time, now a little light music and a heavy video.

Peace

LightSpeedDriver

PS Success in life can somtimes be a very fine and tenuous line that is difficult to maintain for many, myself included in recent years although
thankfully I personally do not "qualify" for a "food-pack" just yet. Knocks wood...

I get much more back from the people I "help" than I could ever give by a little simple volunteer work. A humbling but also happy experience it has
been for me, and I'm sure it could be the same for some ATS members with a little free time to spare. Thanks for reading!

I will eventually give my time and aid to charity. I haven't had an easy life and im only just leveling out in my late 20's. My experiences have made
me want to be involved and to help. When I have tried to help others myself, it's always been abused or they become reliant on my handouts or they lie
and ask for money for drink or drugs or someone actually used it to go to a football game when i gave it in good faith.

Keep up your hard work people like you are far better than I can ever be!

Having been in that situation a few short years ago, I can vouch that kindness is a rare blessing to those in real need. Society judges harshly and
cruelly as though hard times came upon people through their own fault.

How much effort does it take to make a regular donation to the food bank?

a reply to: seeker1963
Hehe, thank you for your reply, I've also been at rock bottom, but fortunately just for a short time. As for tears in the eyes, well, I leave that to
every individual but some things are dear to my heart due to direct experiences, and I guess the same may be true for many people. You are what you
(sometimes have been forced by "situations") to experience.

It is a simple economical fact, if we pumped as much money into happiness as we do in to war, this planet would shine like a diamond, instead of a
blue marble. Then again, I'm just an old-fart, hippy-loving libertarian scumbag socialist, or something. But in any case, I am happy with who and
what I am, eventually. Not always, but often!.

originally posted by: Scotscorps84
I will eventually give my time and aid to charity. I haven't had an easy life and im only just leveling out in my late 20's. My experiences have
made me want to be involved and to help. When I have tried to help others myself, it's always been abused or they become reliant on my handouts or
they lie and ask for money for drink or drugs or someone actually used it to go to a football game when i gave it in good faith.

Keep up your hard work people like you are far better than I can ever be!

My brother/sister, you are you, and beautiful. Do not put yourself down, and certainly not on the account of this thread. Helping others is helping
yourself, we are all connected. I myself am 43, long-term unemployed, and desperate but a little goes a long way, especially when you are homeless
and/or on the poverty line.

originally posted by: Expat888
I help direct when see people in need.. charities all too often profit from misery and do very little to help those they claim to be fundraising for..

This my friend, is exactly what I was trying to hint at. I will not give one dime/penny to a large charity such as Cancer Research, worldwide, I'd
rather just give it directly to the guy in the street.

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